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  Coventry UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 Human and machine intelligence worked together to find 40,000 ring galaxies, scientists at the National Astronomy Meeting will announce this week. Dr Mike Walmsley of the University of Manchester and the Galaxy Zoo collaboration will present the new work, describing how this "cyborg" approach measured the shapes of millions of galaxies. Galaxies live a chaotic life. Collisions with other galaxies and bursts of energy from supermassive black holes disrupt the colours and orbits of billions of stars ... read more |
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Quantum physics: Record entanglement of quantum memoriesMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2022 A network in which data transmission is perfectly secure against hacking? If physicists have their way, this will become reality one day with the help of the quantum mechanical phenomenon known as e ... more  
SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites to orbit after Dragon docks with ISSWashington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2021 SpaceX on Sunday launched 53 Starlink satellites after the company's Dragon cargo craft carrying crew supplies and scientific experiments docked with the International Space Station on Saturday. ... more  
Space Systems Command's Next Industry Day to Highlight Space Domain AwarenessLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 Space Systems Command (SSC) officials and other agencies involved in Space Domain Awareness (SDA) will meet with traditional and non-traditional space industry professionals July 28 in Colorado Spri ... more  
A little piece of Washington state blasted into space this weekRichland WA (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 A tiny piece of rural Washington state-and some of its "inhabitants"- blasted off into space from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 14. The inhabitants are bacteria that live i ... more |
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Astrophysicists prove neutrinos originate from BlazarsClemson SC (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 Cosmic rays, charged particles that travel up to nearly the speed of light from deep outer space, constantly bombard Earth. For more than a century, astrophysicists have tried to determine the ... more 
Successful startup of the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at SanfordBerkeley CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 Deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), an innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector - the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, led by Law ... more  
Researchers use quantum-inspired approach to increase lidar resolutionGlasgow UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 Researchers have shown that a quantum-inspired technique can be used to perform lidar imaging with a much higher depth resolution than is possible with conventional approaches. Lidar, which uses las ... more  
Rocking shadows in protoplanetary discsCoventry UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 Astronomers from the University of Warwick reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the "rocking shadow" effect that describes how discs in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around the ... more |
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Beyond the Clouds: Finding Galaxies Behind GalaxiesCoventry UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe, each containing billions of stars, and found in every part of the sky. But in some directions, nearby galaxies block the view of the more ... more  
NASA Ice Scientists Take Flight from Greenland to Study Melting Arctic IceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Over the next two weeks, a handful of NASA scientists will be living very different lives from the rest of us: they will board a research plane in Greenland alongside laser instruments to help calib ... more  
Ozone depletion over North Pole produces weather anomaliesZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Many people are familiar with the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, but what is less well known is that occasionally, the protective ozone in the stratosphere over the Arctic is destroyed as ... more 
Great Air Quality for the Great Lakes RegionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Air quality planning agencies in the U.S. Great Lakes region now include high-resolution NASA satellite data and near real-time Earth observations in their ozone pollution assessments. Creating mode ... more |
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Predicting equatorial plasma bubbles with SWARMLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 Changes in atmospheric density after sunset can cause hot pockets of gas called 'plasma bubbles' to form over the Earth's equator, resulting in communication disruptions between satellites and the E ... more  
New insights into the Earth's formationZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions have still to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are sti ... more  
Physicists discover a "family" of robust, superconducting graphene structuresBoston MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is a single-atom-thin material that can be exfoliated from the same graphite that is found in pencil lead. T ... more  
Bees' 'waggle dance' may revolutionize how robots talk to each other in disaster zonesBangalore, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 Where are those flowers and how far away are they? This is the crux of the 'waggle dance' performed by honeybees to alert others to the location of nectar-rich flowers. A new study in Frontiers in R ... more 
Salutary delay in the reaction of crystal atoms to avalanche of photonsCracow, Poland (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 Using X-ray laser pulses, the structure of matter can be studied with previously unprecedented accuracy. However, the pulses are so violent that they destroy the sample being irradiated. Notwithstan ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
While the International Space Station was traveling more than 267 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the forward-facing port of the station's Harmony module at 11:21 a.m. EDT Jul 17, with NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins monitoring operations from the station.
The Dragon launched on SpaceX's 25th contracted commercial ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
A SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 5,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 8:44 p.m. EDT Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy for the company's 25th commercial resupply services missi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2022 
Curiosity is back on the road, but some interesting boulders caught our attention and led to a short detour. The team was already planning to divert to the southwest to get some imaging of nearby cliffs, but the large boulders that have tumbled down provide a tantalizing glimpse of what's to come.
Boulders like the large one shown in the above Navcam image (now named "Ilha Novo Destino") c ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 
China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 12:29 am from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China's Sichuan province and then placed the Tianlian II-03 satellite into a geostationary orbit, according to China Aerospace Sc ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
In 2016 and 2018, I was invited to Ukraine. I gave speeches about the Space Revolution at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, in Dnipro and other venues, and met with the Mayors, leaders of the Rada, the Ukrainian cosmonaut corps, and other space leaders, as well as several groups of their rising tech community.
The folks I met there, just a couple of years after what they refer to as the "Mai ... more |
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 Glasgow UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Researchers have shown that a quantum-inspired technique can be used to perform lidar imaging with a much higher depth resolution than is possible with conventional approaches. Lidar, which uses laser pulses to acquire 3D information about a scene or object, is usually best suited for imaging large objects such as topographical features or built structures due to its limited depth resolution. ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (The Conversation) Jul 15, 2022 
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and planetary science.
We are two scientists who study exoplanets and astrobiology. Thanks in large part to next-generation telescopes like James Webb, researchers like us will soon be able to measure the ... more |
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 Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 
A new citizen science project, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with support from NASA, allows volunteers to play an important role in helping scientists learn more about the atmosphere on Jupiter. Citizen scientists can help astrophysicists categorize tens of thousands of stunning images taken from the Juno spacecraft with just a web browser.
The planet Jupite ... more |
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 Suva, Fiji (AFP) July 13, 2022 
The United States launched a major push into the Pacific Wednesday as it seeks to hold off China's advances in the region, with Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the opening of two new embassies at a key regional summit.
Washington will open missions in Tonga and Kiribati and also appoint its first-ever Pacific regional envoy, Harris said as she pledged $600 million in funding for the ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company the contract to deliver operations and sustainment support services for the Global Positioning System IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF. The support contract provides specialized sustainment services to maintain the GPS IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF space vehicles and signal in space, and meet evolving requirements for a resilient system for the joint wa ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Advanced Navigation, one of the world's most determined innovators in AI robotics, and navigation technology has announced its ambitions to be the first Australian company to reach the Moon through its development of two unique navigation systems.
"The team is absolutely thrilled to see years of research in development progress into successful technology. We look forward to being the first ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new study from physicists at CU Boulder.
That popcorn-like effect may even help to tidy up smaller asteroids, causing them to lose dust and look rough and craggy from space.
The researchers published their results July 11 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Their fin ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Changes in atmospheric density after sunset can cause hot pockets of gas called 'plasma bubbles' to form over the Earth's equator, resulting in communication disruptions between satellites and the Earth.
New AI models are now helping scientists to predict plasma bubble events and create a forecast. The work was presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) by Sachin Redd ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
China will launch its first comprehensive solar probe, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, in October, opening a new chapter in the country's exploration of the sun, according to the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
From Monday to July 24, the research institute is gathering suggestions from the public for names to give the milestone instrument, ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete process of the collision of a black hole with a neutron star. In their studies, they calculated the process from the final orbits through the merger to the post-merger phase, in which according to thei ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2022 
A network in which data transmission is perfectly secure against hacking? If physicists have their way, this will become reality one day with the help of the quantum mechanical phenomenon known as entanglement. For entangled particles, the rule is: If you measure the state of one of the particles, then you automatically know the state of the other. It makes no difference how far away the entangl ... more |
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